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Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bear Creek Summer Home Area, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bear Creek Summer Home Area:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Bear Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boise County: Ada, Custer, Elmore, Gem & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bear Creek Summer Home Area. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Boise County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Bear Creek Summer Home Area (which is Boise County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Boise County   (where Bear Creek Summer Home Area resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.boise.id.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.
      • Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        • Camp Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
      • Graham ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Graham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
        • Graham is located in Boise County
      • Banner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Banner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
        • Banner is located in Boise County
      • Long Creek Summit Home
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Creek Summit Home have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Creek Summit Home
        • Long Creek Summit Home is located in Boise County
      • Lowman
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowman
        • Lowman is located in Boise County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lowman <4>
  • Blaine County
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   www.co.custer.id.us/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Challis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.
      • Grandjean
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grandjean have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandjean
        • Grandjean is located in Custer County
      • Lower Stanley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
        • Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
      • Stanley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
        • Stanley is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stanley <4>
      • Cape Horn ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cape Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cape Horn
        • Cape Horn is located in Custer County
      • Obsidian
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Obsidian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obsidian
        • Obsidian is located in Custer County
      • Sunbeam
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunbeam have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunbeam
        • Sunbeam is located in Custer County
      • Robinson Bar
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
        • Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
      • Bonanza ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
        • Bonanza is located in Custer County
      • Custer ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
        • Custer is located in Custer County
      • Torreys
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreys have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreys
        • Torreys is located in Custer County
  • Elmore County
    • County Website:   www.elmorecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Elmore:   Mountain Home
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.
      • Alturas City ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alturas City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas City
        • Alturas City is located in Elmore County
      • Atlanta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bear Creek Summer Home Area) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bear Creek Summer Home Area. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1666, Longitude: -115.1940       In this case, the coordinates for Bear Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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